Quote Originally Posted by Malkria View Post
For "BLM to not top the damage"...not exactly sure what you are saying here. If I am not topping the damage as a BLM? If the job in general is not top damage?
He means if the player playing BLM is of equivalent gear to his party members, if they are doing less than the other party members, then they are not doing well.

Either way, again you don't need to top the parser to understand how the job works, or at minimum how it is being played.
Don't need a medical degree to think the current methods of heart transplant surgery are flawed either. I can also just run over to the podiatrist any time I need a crown in my teeth or a cavity filling too.

The intent is for the job to be trying to push out as much damage without moving as much as possible to maximize the timer for umbral hearts and astral fire phases of damage, correct?
Uhm...kind of? The intent of the job is to maximize fire IV casts while maintaining enochian, with the knowledge fire IV and blizzard IV themselves to not refresh Astral Fire or Umbral Ice.
Meanwhile using swift and triple cast along with the other instant procs to move as necessary around mechanics, at least the ones you can't just eat the damage over. So if I understand all that...why do I need to make top parser, which again is against the ToS to use, to be able to form an opinion? You don't always need to master something to know that something just isn't being done as well as it could be.
So you understand all that, great. Then understand that people like playing like that, and are good at playing like that, and if you think that the gameplay style is so counterintuitive as to be stressful and not fun to play, the job probably just isn't for you.